Purification and molecular cloning of SE-cephalotoxin, a novel proteinaceous toxin from the posterior salivary gland of cuttlefish Sepia esculenta

Toxicon

Volumn 52, Issue 4, 2008, Pages 574-581

  Ueda, Atsushi ^a   Nagai, Hiroshi ^a   Ishida, Masami ^a   Nagashima, Yuji ^a   Shiomi, Kazuo ^a  

^a TOKYO UNIVERSITY OF MARINE SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Cephalotoxin; Cuttlefish; Proteinaceous toxin; Salivary gland; Sepia esculenta

Indexed keywords

CEPHALOTOXIN; COMPLEMENTARY DNA; HYDROXYAPATITE; TOXIN; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CRAB; CUTTLEFISH; GEL FILTRATION; HIGH PERFORMANCE LIQUID CHROMATOGRAPHY; MALE; MOLECULAR CLONING; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SALIVARY GLAND; SEPIA ESCULENTA; SOLUBILITY; SQUID;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMALS; BASE SEQUENCE; CHROMATOGRAPHY, GEL; CHROMATOGRAPHY, HIGH PRESSURE LIQUID; CLONING, MOLECULAR; DNA, COMPLEMENTARY; GLYCOPROTEINS; LETHAL DOSE 50; MALE; MICE; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; MOLLUSK VENOMS; SALIVARY GLANDS; SEPIA; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, PROTEIN;

ANIMALIA; BIVALVIA; CEPHALOPODA; DECAPODA (CRUSTACEA); DECAPODIFORMES; MUS; OCTOPODIFORMES; SEPIA ESCULENTA; SEPIIDAE;

EID: 50949129142     PISSN: 00410101     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.toxicon.2008.07.007     Document Type: Article

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